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Leapers Chess will be up on game courier soon talking about alfil-wazir, i recently noticed Maka-Dai-Dai Shogi has this piece, it is called a 'Phoenix'. It has the dabbaba-fers too, called 'Kylin'. This must be the first time these pieces were used yes?
The ArchDeacon has the combined movement of the bishop and the dabbabah, so it is identical to the Bede (or BD) in Ralph Betza's 'Colorbound Clobberers' army. In my [2005-02-25] comment to Peter Aronson's 'White Elephant Chess' I proposed the name Mastodon for the combination of a Rook and a Bede. Just a thought: we could call the Tower a Raffle, as Ralph already uses Waffle for a piece moving like a Wazir or an Alfil.
Well, while we're being silly, how about a Carpenter-Bishop mix -- a Carhop? :-)
Amazabbafil! Okay, maybe not
David Moeser's Double King Chess has a Rook + Squirrel piece called a Squirk. By analogy, a Queen + Squirrel should be Squireen, or maybe a Squeek. But either would be silly.
Yeah, it does. Don't mess with this babe, she bites. (Doesn't grasp intermediate levels of force :-))
so it moves like queen and 'squirrel', it is a super powerful piece then, probably needs a strong name. I like 'DancingQueen' though, other names i dunno 'SquirrelQueen', 'SuperQueen' (probably been done a bit), 'WarQueen', now that sounds big, i like it .. 2 more 'JumpingQueen' .. 'LeaperQueen'.
The Queen in this variant is actually much more powerful than the simple Mad Queen. It also has the ability to leap to any second cell, making it stronger than the Amazon. I would like to rename this piece to reflect this increase in power. Is there a previous piece which has this particular move pattern? If not, I am open to suggestions for a new name.
i love the bowman piece, and the dragon, it is like a squirrel plus. they go well with the bishop rook and queen. the pawns are interesting too, nice game on a 10x10.
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